The News Quiz - Friday 21st May 2021

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman is joined by Geoff Norcott, Anand Menon, Felicity Ward and Eleanor Tiernan for a look back at the week's headlines Items on this week's agenda include foreign holidays and sheep. Stories range from red to green via amber in terms of national importance. Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred Sound Editor: Marc Willcox A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, we have just received the latest government guidance
0:08.7	for how to interpret the latest government guidance.
0:12.0	LAUGHTER
0:15.0	What has currently advised is read the latest advice
0:18.0	very carefully with your eyes shut
0:20.6	by the light of a full moon on a cloudy night,
0:23.1	then apply none of that advice all of the time,
0:25.7	all of it none of the time,
0:27.2	and some of it whenever it just kind of feels right.
0:29.6	LAUGHTER
0:32.6	Well, sprinting through an airport to Portugal, shouting,
0:36.0	you'll never take me alive.
0:37.6	LAUGHTER
0:40.2	Please now ignore this advice.
0:42.2	It has been superseded by coded messages,
0:44.4	which appear when you listen backwards to this episode of The News Quiz.
0:48.2	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:53.0	I'm Ali Zoltan, welcome to The News Quiz.
0:55.4	And in case you need a statistic during the show
0:57.7	to corroborate and or disprove something that has or hasn't been said,
1:00.7	here is a kit to construct your own statistic,
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